STU: Because I love the idea -- this story is fascinating to
me because Barack Obama trying to relate to the Midwestern
farmer about arugula.

GLENN: Yeah, he's in Iowa to speak about rural issues and,
you know, he's trying to sympathize with farmers whose crop
prices are stagnating and he says, anybody gone into Whole
Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? And it
was crickets. I mean, there was just, hello, is anybody --
hello, is anybody -- arugula, you know, Whole Foods. It's a
supermarket. And so anyway, I mean, there's no hope. The
closest Whole Foods I think is in Kansas City. Kansas,
that's another state for those in -- another state. A state,
it's a collection of cities and areas and rural areas are
with trees, et cetera, et cetera. But that's, you know, a
different story.

The price of
arugula, not oil, is at the top of Obama's list
of issues he plans on tackling in his first year in
office

So Whole Foods completely un-relatable, and arugula. I mean,
the audience, the farmers, one farmer said, the woman
sitting next to him and said, what's arugula. When he said,
something you can't grow here. He is -- I really think
there's something to this. He is exciting to the elite.
Well, you know what? So was Michael Moore, but nobody was
going to elect him President. He's exciting to Leonardo Di
Caprio. He's exciting to Barbra Streisand and they're
excited because he is articulate, he is seemingly normal,
but more importantly his values and his view of what a
country should be is damn near socialist. So they're
thrilled with him. But once the -- you know, once the
regular schmo finds out about Barack Obama and his views,
his real views, it's going to fall apart. He's just not
going to make it. And that's when these elites will start to
also hurt him because who's going to -- you are talking
about Whole Foods in Iowa and arugula? I mean, I don't know
about you, but I prefer arugula but I don't think I've ever
said, I'd like a good arugula salad right now. I know I've
never uttered the phrase, has anybody seen the price of
arugula lately? I don't even know what arugula costs? I
don't actually even know what arugula is.

STU: I love the fact that he's trying because it's such a,
it's so -- it's such a pandering statement because you know
what, Barack Obama doesn't care what the price of any leafy
vegetable is. He's making millions of dollars off of his
book. It doesn't effect him at all.

GLENN: Like he's gone into the supermarket lately for -- you
know what, honey, I'll stop by the store, I'll stop by Whole
Foods and just pick up some arugula and then he stood there
and had been there before, you know, in the last month or so
and went, holy cow, the price of arugula has gone up. I
mean, that doesn't happen.

STU: Never.

GLENN: That's like me trying to relate, you know, to, you
know, a group of just on fire liberal New Yorkers and
saying, I know. That Lenin guy, he is crazy, huh? I mean,
what?

STU: It's just silly, and I understand that that's a
politician thing, that you're supposed to relate to the
people, but I think you should have your script written for
you by someone who's actually been to Iowa before.

GLENN: You know what, just be honest. Just be honest. Look,
I don't know about -- I don't know much about farming, I
really don't. I grew up on a farm. If I'm a presidential
candidate, I'll say this. I spent my summers on a farm, and
you know what I did? I spent most of my summers avoiding
automatic work. Farm work is way too hard and you make way
too -- it's far too little money to do it. I mean, you know,
I believe it's absolutely true. You want to make a fortune
in farming? Start with a bigger fortune. So I wasn't
interested in farming, and I don't know. The food magically
appears on my plate, but I will tell you this. I'm going to
get the best damn advisors to find out what we're doing.
There are concerns that I have on farming, and there are
these -- you know, this, this and this. This corn ethanol,
I'm sorry. I know I'm in Iowa, but the ethanol thing is a
joke. You know it and I know it. It's a short-term fix. It's
a short-term way of giving you money. Now, I don't believe
in this. Let's find some other ways to make you money. You
want to make money? Good. You know what I'm going to do? I'm
going to say no to corn ethanol but I might just say yes to
hemp. Because I don't think all you people in this audience
-- look at you. Do I think you're going to be out smoking
weed? "Hey, come here, come here, come here. Oh, man, you
only have to smoke four bales of this hemp, but I am so
almost buzzing, it's crazy."

STU: You would have a zero percent approval rating.

GLENN: I would. I would. But at least I'd be honest. Which I
would at least be able to lose with my soul. You know what I
mean?

STU: Yes. You'd have your soul but that's -- you'd have your
soul and one vote, from you and not from your wife.

GLENN: Can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? I
actually don't think that's true. Now me, I wouldn't garner
any votes, but somebody who has a little more credibility
than me, somebody who is -- you know, and this is -- again
let me go back to Mitt Romney. This is a thing that I was
all for Mitt Romney and then I saw him in a debate and he
kept trying to force the name Ronald Reagan into every
answer he gave. And I thought, stop it. I don't want you to
be Ronald Reagan. I want you to be you. And Rudy Giuliani, I
want you to be you. You know, nobody's great trying to be
somebody else. Be you. Only you can be great at being you. I
want to know who you are. I know who Ronald Reagan is. Who
are you. And that's what I think America's starving for.
That's why I think Hillary Clinton is unelectable. But then
again I thought George Bush was unelectable in 2000. But he
was running against somebody unelectable. My gosh, how come
almost everybody that runs is unelectable? Don't answer that
question, don't answer that question. It will only make you
feel worse about yourself, your country and me, quite
frankly.

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